Actually, if you create a "pre-allocated" virtual disk (as opposed to dynamically growing), you'll end up with a text file "something.vmdk" that provides disk geometry and points at a raw bit dump "something-flat.vmdk".
Are you sure that the image it points to does contain any extra data, like VMWare header info etc? In the past I had to check this for a work matter with VMWare 4 and it certainly was creating a disk image which I could not simply write back to a block device and expect to work, simply because of all the extra VMWare related data at the beginning of the file. I always create pre-allocated images.
VMware (Workstation 5.0, anyway) can use an existing dd dump if you create a.vmdk file that refers to it. I've done this several times.
Wow this is really good to know.
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! Its Captain Obvious. And he is on crack as usual.
This seems a little rough. I think his reply was quite fitting, considering that some guy who dislikes Theo, is not going to buy Theo's wares, like it's going to make some sort of difference. Don't you think sometimes the obvious needs to be stated to the people who don't see it? That's how I took CyricZ's reply.
What's obvious to you, might be news to someone else. So many people come into misc@ or slashdot and try to equate OpenBSD with a business model for example and then argue the same lines which have been argued countless times over the past 10 years, for which I have beared witness to about 6 years of. Those people can be bludgeoned to a black and blue death with the OBVIOUS-STICK, still not "get it" and then come out forever stating that, "Theo is rude and they'll never buy his CD's". Nobody gives a fuck. Least of all Theo.
Unfortunately, those people cannot accept the obvious because their egos get in the way. However, poor chaps and lasses which mean well, try to explain what has already been explained to people who don't want to accept the reality.
Theo and the other OpenBSD developers make a really nice OS, along with some other nice software like OpenSSH. The personality of the project lead should not matter at all when you consider the excellent results they get.
Perhaps you missed my point, maybe I missed yours, maybe we're seeing things entirely different. There are a lot of possibilities but this is leading nowhere, I would just like to wish you a nice day.
I hope that if we ever converse in that future that it will be both positive and constructive. I have seen your posts in the past and I hope to see them in the future, and even though you do not seem too fond of me (atleast in my perspective, sorry to assume) I will look forward to them still!
Haha. I wish I could have turned that Au into Ti or at least Al. But Apple memory system performance was so terrible at the time, compared with this DDR2-400 machine, that it was not worth it.
Next time I'll write "Aussie" and hopefully Apple will be shipping some fast machines soon.
I looked at that machine, and disliked the speaker quality (and no, using headphones is not the answer)
Are you refering to the speakers which come with the included docking station? I think they sound fantastic for speakers you get with a notebook. I've been listening to some classical music via Internet radio stations and could not wait to have my GF hear it. It fills my room with such amazing (and loud) quality sound. I prefer headphones over speakers when I want really loud, good quality and excellent stereo separation. For me headphones are the answer when speakers are not.
- and the touchpad, of course. I've looked at Sony eveytime they have a new notebook come out, but have always decided to take a pass. My minimal criteria seems to have become that (at least one of the) feature(s) that a Thinkpad has - the "nipple" pointing device (What can I say?).
I prefer the nipple to the pad too, but then I prefer a real mouse to both of those and if I am willing to sit at the machine for more than 10 minutes then I take the seconds it requires to plug in my mouse.
Additionally, the Thinklight is damn useful, when it's needed.
Yes the Thinklight is a nice feature.
And FWIW, I despise touchpads. Thinkpads with nipples and touchpads can at least have the pads turned off, but its mere existence occupies critical palm rest space, and if enabled, results in pointer movement when you least want it, or slight, but eventually tiring, contortion in how one's hands are held.
The driver which comes with my VAIO touchpad, has a configurable delay which causes it to be inactive after a certain period of time since the last keyboard press. This prevents accidental cursor movement while typing. I have not had an issue with this. I only ever noticed my thumbs occasionally touch the pad after I was whittling down the running services, etc, which caused me to quickly see the value of leaving that feature ON. I get cramps if I use any trackpad for long periods of time, but the same happens when I use nipples, so I prefer a real mouse.
In short, what is needed is (the old) Thinkpad features and quailty, but with Sony style and widescreen and weight reduction efforts. I'd buy four today.
The 1920x1200 133dpi display on this thing is incredible. Turning up the font sizes on this display is absolutely gorgeous. Now when I use other LCD's they look so chunky and hard to read. I can't wait for the day when flat panels break 300dpi and OS' and apps actually cater for it. Apple are CRAZY to take this garbage "optimum dpi" line. I see such a big difference with this 133 dpi display, that I think once we get to the point where a realtime display looks as good as printed paper we will not know how we coped without them. Apple will still be defiantly stuck at 96 dpi or whatever the "optimum" is though, I imagine.
PS, Fanboys note, I am also a happy Apple user. iBook, Mac mini and hopefully Powerbook one day once the dust settles (That $5k was on standby for a Powerbook with FAST memory for a long time. I got tired of waiting).
Does anyone know what OS they're using for the AV mode and could it be replaced with a really thin version of GNU/Linux?
It may already be. I've seen other notebooks with this feature and I remember one was noted as being Linux (Samsung?).
It seems that other than Apple and IBM, Sony is one of the few companies that turn out real innovations in their laptops while others are happy with "paint on performance".
Sony certainly did not innovate that idea. It's been around for a while now and my only 2 month old VAIO comes with integrated media software which is kinda dodgy and far from intuitive even with the supplied remote (VGN-A49GP). Thankfully it runs FreeBSD very nicely with the awesome display.
I just dropped $5k AU on a VAIO VGN-A49GP about 2 months ago. I bought it for the spectacular display (17" 1920x1200), but I am a little disappointed with it feeling a little flimsy after not much use. Even the silver paint on the palm rests is already wearing off and showing the black plastic underneath.
Metal or carbon fiber would have been nice, especially at this price point and size.
I suppose everyone has heard of this, but for those that may not have... I remember many years ago seeing an image of tracks on Pentium silicon which spelled "bill sux".
I don't understand why people think x86 Macs are going to be any cheaper. Macs aren't expensive to buy because they're expensive to make, they're expensive to buy because Apple has the highest profit margins in the industry.
Do you know this for a fact? I would have thought that Apple would not be able to exploit economies of scale as well as the cheaper PC brands (especially the likes of Dell). Whenever I have looked at the top end Apple gear and compared with the top end IBM, Sony, HP, etc the Apple stuff is usually competitive or cheaper. People keep focusing on the cost of IBM PPC's being cheaper than P4's, but what about the motherboards and other Apple specific items? About 10 years ago I worked for NEC, they were getting generic parts from Acer. Some of the NEC Valuemates were completely made by Acer and rebadged with NEC (a physical inspection showed a huge difference in build quality between the Valuemates and real NEC built units). I know Apple does this to an extent also (my old clamshell iBook has an Acer built keyboard), but there is plenty in Apple machines which are specifically Apple for which they have to foot the bill and not share amongst an OEM and many other brands.
I am guessing that Apple will have to price competatively with their x86 Macs because people will be able to compare them now head to head. Review sites will install XP on the Apple machines and benchmark the exact same software configurations with Apples versus all the others. If the Apples were much more expensive yet were not really faster... Apple would no longer be able to drag out MHz myth lines, Photoshop benchmarks, etc.
I look back at the last 20 years of Windows and say - what a waste. What a colossal monument to greed and complacency.
Especially given what Apple has achieved in less than half of that time re-inventing their OS by building on Mach and NeXTSTEP.
I can't wait for the competively priced and performing Intel based Macs, with their latest version of OSX and their Windows API compatibility layer (Much speculation there). ; ) MS will hopefully be fatally wounded by these, when there is far less reason to buy Wintel.
I do not like the marketing bullshit though - they want to make people think this card does make everything sound better
CD's don't sound like ANYTHING. They are media which hold audio recordings at a finite level of detail. It is the device which reads these recordings and turns them back into signals which can be converted to sound via transducers, which make the biggest difference to sound quality. So creatives claim is completely and utterly ridiculous. If they had claimed a CD played through their sound card, gave better sound quality than the same CD played through a typical CD player or audio card, then I might be able to believe that. To further extend this claim to an mp3 of a CD sounding better than the original, can be nothing but subjective garbage and marketing bullshit.
Up sampling in bit depth and sampling rate, to allow the use of less complex antialiasing filters can make the output sound better. But there are CD players which do this also for the same desired effect. They are NOT making the CD sound better, they are making a CD player which sounds better than lesser CD players. The same can be said of the X-Fi. It is NOT providing output which "sounds better than the original CD", it is providing output which sounds better than lesser CD players and sound cards.
Creative have a very long history of out-and-out lying about their products specs and capabilities.
Nice morals you have, that let you decide it's okay to kill something else, just "because". Some wild cats were asked for their opinions on this matter:
Killing a few ferral animals is preferable to the extinction of native animals. That is where my morals sit. One could argue that allowing the ferral animals to live is the same as deciding to kill the native animals. Just sitting by and watching a species become lost is imoral.
Where on Earth is your logic?
"If a human -- an introduced species -- is spotted, we should eat it. I say this as a conservationist and large cat of more than 5 years."
To decimate means to kill every 10th one. A behaviour demonstrated by officers in the Roman army around the time of the ceasars.
That is the ORIGINAL meaning. There is also, "To destroy or kill a large part of (a group)".
I am curious as to what morality upholds the taking of life?
The morality is to PROTECT the innocent lives of MANY other animals which are supposed to be here. If the consequence of acheiving this protection is to kill an animal which is out of its natural habitat, then that is the better of the two evils. Life is not so black and white.
What constitutes a 'redneck' is a matter of attitude not just dress, financial circumstances and social standing.
And this hunter had a redneck attitude how?
The President of the United States is not a big cat.
I did not compare GWB to the cat.
You do not mention the need to cull the feral humans that have been wiping out both the flora and fauna of Australia.
It was infered when I mentioned the other ferral animals.
No doubt, as you claim to be a conservationist, you will proffer yourself to be responsibly culled in order to protect the environment from further depradations.
I mentioned this in another post. It is our duty as humans, to fix the damage we have done by introducing these animals. It is THE LEAST we can do.
Wow, you sure are anxious to not get the point, and to be blind to how the insurgents (many/most from outside of Iraq, all funded from outside) operate. That is to say, hiding out in civic structures such mosques, storing weapons in buildings next to schools, and so on.
I am very aware of the dirty tactics of the insurgents. However the US military can't be sure that every person walking out of that mosque is an insurgent. How about the crowd of people walking casually through the street? What about the fact that the whole reason for invading Iraq has not been found yet? What about the fact that the US should not even be there at all? If my country were being invaded by an all powerful nation, I would be using all sorts of unorthodox tactics too and I would be very glad to have allies willing to come to my aid and risk their lives fighting this invading force.
I'm not blind to either side. It seems some people here are however blind to at least one side. When will the US realise that they should mind their own fucking business? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and this melee will have far reaching dire consequences.
Nothing but a spray of bone fragments and gore over a six foot area, just a ragged stump. Think wood chipper. Very freaky. Best we could figure was the bullet hit the spine at the base of the skull, causing the thing to pop like a balloon. Was ~40 yards out...
Wow. I know ballistics can make for some amazing freaky stuff, but that sounds pretty incredible.
Here is another one. Footage from an AC-130 gunship (A modified C-130 Hercules with mini-guns and howitzer cannon). Notice in this movie, that there is a very strong emphasis on NOT HITTING THE BUILDING CONSIDERED TO BE A MOSQUE. Note however, that people LEAVING THE MOSQUE were gunned down and that they were gunned down after the men in the AC-130 can be heard identifying the targets as having left the mosque.
The relevance of this, is that hitting the mosque would provide evidence against the US forces which would be much harder to argue against when it hits the news. It is not the people in the mosque that matter. Once they have left the mosque, it is much easier to LIE ABOUT WHAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS WERE DOING AND WHO THEY WERE.
GWB, uses guns to hunt in hunter outfits. He can barely string a legible sentence together. He fits the redneck description to me.
You are quite obviously a kid who doesent understand how the world works yet.
33 yo ex Navy.
Yeah, what Bush did was wrong. He had bad information and made a bad decision about what he should do, but that does not mean that he murdered thousands of innocent people. Those innocent people were killed by the terrorist groups, its not the US army out there blowing themselves up in an attempt to take as many lives as possible, is it that hard to understand?
I have footage of US military dropping bombs on an unidentified group of civilians in Iraq who were just walking in the street, amongst many other attrocities. Easy to find this sort of stuff on the net. The US calls a dead child collateral damage. I also have an image of an Iraqi woman being pack raped in Iraq by US soldiers. GWB does not give a fuck.
It seems that you do not know how the World works yet.
I agree that preemptive strikes against genuine terrorists is a good thing. But Iraq was not a genuine target. It will be in the future though, now that this has blown up so severely. This will never end well for the US.
If you want to do something to help our world why not try to help end terrorism instead of just crying about those who try to.
This is a truely ridiculous statement. Given that the US is merely fueling more terrorism by its current actions. Iraq had little to do with terrorism and seemingly nothing to do with 9/11. Disagree with that? Then prove it wrong. The US Govt cannot find a shred of evidence to support their actions and now officials are back peddling out of previous statements because they know this is a lost arguement.
"I've got numerous individuals on the road, do you want me to take them out?", "Take 'em out!", "IMPACT!", "Oh dude".
WAKE THE FUCK UP. DID THAT LOOK LIKE A LEGITIMATE TARGET TO YOU? WAS THAT "TARGET" EFFECTIVELY IDENTIFIED AS BEING LEGITIMATE, SO AS TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT IRAQI PEOPLE? NO, IT FUCKING WASN'T. Real combatants normally work in smaller groups in any given area, RUN between areas of no cover and generally LOOK like combatants in their movements. These were just a crowd of people casually walking in the street. Even if they were out to kill US and allied forces, where was the positive identification of this prior to the act of killing? This is the same old thing that ALL non-Americans always say. Americans shoot first and ask questions later.
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Actually, if you create a "pre-allocated" virtual disk (as opposed to dynamically growing), you'll end up with a text file "something.vmdk" that provides disk geometry and points at a raw bit dump "something-flat.vmdk".
.vmdk file that refers to it. I've done this several times.
Are you sure that the image it points to does contain any extra data, like VMWare header info etc? In the past I had to check this for a work matter with VMWare 4 and it certainly was creating a disk image which I could not simply write back to a block device and expect to work, simply because of all the extra VMWare related data at the beginning of the file. I always create pre-allocated images.
VMware (Workstation 5.0, anyway) can use an existing dd dump if you create a
Wow this is really good to know.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! Its Captain Obvious. And he is on crack as usual.
This seems a little rough. I think his reply was quite fitting, considering that some guy who dislikes Theo, is not going to buy Theo's wares, like it's going to make some sort of difference. Don't you think sometimes the obvious needs to be stated to the people who don't see it? That's how I took CyricZ's reply.
What's obvious to you, might be news to someone else. So many people come into misc@ or slashdot and try to equate OpenBSD with a business model for example and then argue the same lines which have been argued countless times over the past 10 years, for which I have beared witness to about 6 years of. Those people can be bludgeoned to a black and blue death with the OBVIOUS-STICK, still not "get it" and then come out forever stating that, "Theo is rude and they'll never buy his CD's". Nobody gives a fuck. Least of all Theo.
Unfortunately, those people cannot accept the obvious because their egos get in the way. However, poor chaps and lasses which mean well, try to explain what has already been explained to people who don't want to accept the reality.
Theo and the other OpenBSD developers make a really nice OS, along with some other nice software like OpenSSH. The personality of the project lead should not matter at all when you consider the excellent results they get.
Perhaps you missed my point, maybe I missed yours, maybe we're seeing things entirely different. There are a lot of possibilities but this is leading nowhere, I would just like to wish you a nice day.
I hope that if we ever converse in that future that it will be both positive and constructive. I have seen your posts in the past and I hope to see them in the future, and even though you do not seem too fond of me (atleast in my perspective, sorry to assume) I will look forward to them still!
Wow. Ghandi? Is that you?
That sure was refreshing! And at slashdot!!
Haha. I wish I could have turned that Au into Ti or at least Al. But Apple memory system performance was so terrible at the time, compared with this DDR2-400 machine, that it was not worth it.
Next time I'll write "Aussie" and hopefully Apple will be shipping some fast machines soon.
I bought a dell 9300 for the same reason (the 1920x1200 17" display).
I wish I could find an external LCD with the same resolution, size and aspect ratio, so that I could have dual screen which fit well side-by-side.
I looked at that machine, and disliked the speaker quality (and no, using headphones is not the answer)
Are you refering to the speakers which come with the included docking station? I think they sound fantastic for speakers you get with a notebook. I've been listening to some classical music via Internet radio stations and could not wait to have my GF hear it. It fills my room with such amazing (and loud) quality sound. I prefer headphones over speakers when I want really loud, good quality and excellent stereo separation. For me headphones are the answer when speakers are not.
- and the touchpad, of course. I've looked at Sony eveytime they have a new notebook come out, but have always decided to take a pass. My minimal criteria seems to have become that (at least one of the) feature(s) that a Thinkpad has - the "nipple" pointing device (What can I say?).
I prefer the nipple to the pad too, but then I prefer a real mouse to both of those and if I am willing to sit at the machine for more than 10 minutes then I take the seconds it requires to plug in my mouse.
Additionally, the Thinklight is damn useful, when it's needed.
Yes the Thinklight is a nice feature.
And FWIW, I despise touchpads. Thinkpads with nipples and touchpads can at least have the pads turned off, but its mere existence occupies critical palm rest space, and if enabled, results in pointer movement when you least want it, or slight, but eventually tiring, contortion in how one's hands are held.
The driver which comes with my VAIO touchpad, has a configurable delay which causes it to be inactive after a certain period of time since the last keyboard press. This prevents accidental cursor movement while typing. I have not had an issue with this. I only ever noticed my thumbs occasionally touch the pad after I was whittling down the running services, etc, which caused me to quickly see the value of leaving that feature ON. I get cramps if I use any trackpad for long periods of time, but the same happens when I use nipples, so I prefer a real mouse.
In short, what is needed is (the old) Thinkpad features and quailty, but with Sony style and widescreen and weight reduction efforts. I'd buy four today.
The 1920x1200 133dpi display on this thing is incredible. Turning up the font sizes on this display is absolutely gorgeous. Now when I use other LCD's they look so chunky and hard to read. I can't wait for the day when flat panels break 300dpi and OS' and apps actually cater for it. Apple are CRAZY to take this garbage "optimum dpi" line. I see such a big difference with this 133 dpi display, that I think once we get to the point where a realtime display looks as good as printed paper we will not know how we coped without them. Apple will still be defiantly stuck at 96 dpi or whatever the "optimum" is though, I imagine.
PS, Fanboys note, I am also a happy Apple user. iBook, Mac mini and hopefully Powerbook one day once the dust settles (That $5k was on standby for a Powerbook with FAST memory for a long time. I got tired of waiting).
Does anyone know what OS they're using for the AV mode and could it be replaced with a really thin version of GNU/Linux?
It may already be. I've seen other notebooks with this feature and I remember one was noted as being Linux (Samsung?).
It seems that other than Apple and IBM, Sony is one of the few companies that turn out real innovations in their laptops while others are happy with "paint on performance".
Sony certainly did not innovate that idea. It's been around for a while now and my only 2 month old VAIO comes with integrated media software which is kinda dodgy and far from intuitive even with the supplied remote (VGN-A49GP). Thankfully it runs FreeBSD very nicely with the awesome display.
In Korea, carbon fiber is for old people.
/. inspired cliché or am I late to this one?
Do I detect a new
Stonger, lighter, smaller my ass - it's all about execs who want to say 'I have that new Carbon Fiber laptop!'
The new Acer Ferrari 4000?
I just dropped $5k AU on a VAIO VGN-A49GP about 2 months ago. I bought it for the spectacular display (17" 1920x1200), but I am a little disappointed with it feeling a little flimsy after not much use. Even the silver paint on the palm rests is already wearing off and showing the black plastic underneath.
Metal or carbon fiber would have been nice, especially at this price point and size.
I say exactly the same thing to people who try to tell me that Santa doesn't exist.
[wimper sniffle] You take that back! It's a lie!!
Microsoft?
Uh, yes I did. Did you want me to spoil it for everyone?
It was new to me about six years ago, anyway.
I suppose everyone has heard of this, but for those that may not have... I remember many years ago seeing an image of tracks on Pentium silicon which spelled "bill sux".
I don't understand why people think x86 Macs are going to be any cheaper. Macs aren't expensive to buy because they're expensive to make, they're expensive to buy because Apple has the highest profit margins in the industry.
Do you know this for a fact? I would have thought that Apple would not be able to exploit economies of scale as well as the cheaper PC brands (especially the likes of Dell). Whenever I have looked at the top end Apple gear and compared with the top end IBM, Sony, HP, etc the Apple stuff is usually competitive or cheaper. People keep focusing on the cost of IBM PPC's being cheaper than P4's, but what about the motherboards and other Apple specific items? About 10 years ago I worked for NEC, they were getting generic parts from Acer. Some of the NEC Valuemates were completely made by Acer and rebadged with NEC (a physical inspection showed a huge difference in build quality between the Valuemates and real NEC built units). I know Apple does this to an extent also (my old clamshell iBook has an Acer built keyboard), but there is plenty in Apple machines which are specifically Apple for which they have to foot the bill and not share amongst an OEM and many other brands.
I am guessing that Apple will have to price competatively with their x86 Macs because people will be able to compare them now head to head. Review sites will install XP on the Apple machines and benchmark the exact same software configurations with Apples versus all the others. If the Apples were much more expensive yet were not really faster... Apple would no longer be able to drag out MHz myth lines, Photoshop benchmarks, etc.
I look back at the last 20 years of Windows and say - what a waste. What a colossal monument to greed and complacency.
Especially given what Apple has achieved in less than half of that time re-inventing their OS by building on Mach and NeXTSTEP.
I can't wait for the competively priced and performing Intel based Macs, with their latest version of OSX and their Windows API compatibility layer (Much speculation there). ; ) MS will hopefully be fatally wounded by these, when there is far less reason to buy Wintel.
I do not like the marketing bullshit though - they want to make people think this card does make everything sound better
CD's don't sound like ANYTHING. They are media which hold audio recordings at a finite level of detail. It is the device which reads these recordings and turns them back into signals which can be converted to sound via transducers, which make the biggest difference to sound quality. So creatives claim is completely and utterly ridiculous. If they had claimed a CD played through their sound card, gave better sound quality than the same CD played through a typical CD player or audio card, then I might be able to believe that. To further extend this claim to an mp3 of a CD sounding better than the original, can be nothing but subjective garbage and marketing bullshit.
Up sampling in bit depth and sampling rate, to allow the use of less complex antialiasing filters can make the output sound better. But there are CD players which do this also for the same desired effect. They are NOT making the CD sound better, they are making a CD player which sounds better than lesser CD players. The same can be said of the X-Fi. It is NOT providing output which "sounds better than the original CD", it is providing output which sounds better than lesser CD players and sound cards.
Creative have a very long history of out-and-out lying about their products specs and capabilities.
Creative says that the X-Fi's upsampling and upmixing capabilities can make MP3s sound better than the original CD
Horse shit.
Nice morals you have, that let you decide it's okay to kill something else, just "because". Some wild cats were asked for their opinions on this matter:
Killing a few ferral animals is preferable to the extinction of native animals. That is where my morals sit. One could argue that allowing the ferral animals to live is the same as deciding to kill the native animals. Just sitting by and watching a species become lost is imoral.
Where on Earth is your logic?
"If a human -- an introduced species -- is spotted, we should eat it. I say this as a conservationist and large cat of more than 5 years."
Your are a complete moron.
To decimate means to kill every 10th one. A behaviour demonstrated by officers in the Roman army around the time of the ceasars.
That is the ORIGINAL meaning. There is also, "To destroy or kill a large part of (a group)".
I am curious as to what morality upholds the taking of life?
The morality is to PROTECT the innocent lives of MANY other animals which are supposed to be here. If the consequence of acheiving this protection is to kill an animal which is out of its natural habitat, then that is the better of the two evils. Life is not so black and white.
What constitutes a 'redneck' is a matter of attitude not just dress, financial circumstances and social standing.
And this hunter had a redneck attitude how?
The President of the United States is not a big cat.
I did not compare GWB to the cat.
You do not mention the need to cull the feral humans that have been wiping out both the flora and fauna of Australia.
It was infered when I mentioned the other ferral animals.
No doubt, as you claim to be a conservationist, you will proffer yourself to be responsibly culled in order to protect the environment from further depradations.
I mentioned this in another post. It is our duty as humans, to fix the damage we have done by introducing these animals. It is THE LEAST we can do.
Wow, you sure are anxious to not get the point, and to be blind to how the insurgents (many/most from outside of Iraq, all funded from outside) operate. That is to say, hiding out in civic structures such mosques, storing weapons in buildings next to schools, and so on.
I am very aware of the dirty tactics of the insurgents. However the US military can't be sure that every person walking out of that mosque is an insurgent. How about the crowd of people walking casually through the street? What about the fact that the whole reason for invading Iraq has not been found yet? What about the fact that the US should not even be there at all? If my country were being invaded by an all powerful nation, I would be using all sorts of unorthodox tactics too and I would be very glad to have allies willing to come to my aid and risk their lives fighting this invading force.
I'm not blind to either side. It seems some people here are however blind to at least one side. When will the US realise that they should mind their own fucking business? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and this melee will have far reaching dire consequences.
Nothing but a spray of bone fragments and gore over a six foot area, just a ragged stump. Think wood chipper. Very freaky. Best we could figure was the bullet hit the spine at the base of the skull, causing the thing to pop like a balloon. Was ~40 yards out...
Wow. I know ballistics can make for some amazing freaky stuff, but that sounds pretty incredible.
Here is another one. Footage from an AC-130 gunship (A modified C-130 Hercules with mini-guns and howitzer cannon). Notice in this movie, that there is a very strong emphasis on NOT HITTING THE BUILDING CONSIDERED TO BE A MOSQUE. Note however, that people LEAVING THE MOSQUE were gunned down and that they were gunned down after the men in the AC-130 can be heard identifying the targets as having left the mosque.
The relevance of this, is that hitting the mosque would provide evidence against the US forces which would be much harder to argue against when it hits the news. It is not the people in the mosque that matter. Once they have left the mosque, it is much easier to LIE ABOUT WHAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS WERE DOING AND WHO THEY WERE.
GWB, uses guns to hunt in hunter outfits. He can barely string a legible sentence together. He fits the redneck description to me.
You are quite obviously a kid who doesent understand how the world works yet.
33 yo ex Navy.
Yeah, what Bush did was wrong. He had bad information and made a bad decision about what he should do, but that does not mean that he murdered thousands of innocent people. Those innocent people were killed by the terrorist groups, its not the US army out there blowing themselves up in an attempt to take as many lives as possible, is it that hard to understand?
I have footage of US military dropping bombs on an unidentified group of civilians in Iraq who were just walking in the street, amongst many other attrocities. Easy to find this sort of stuff on the net. The US calls a dead child collateral damage. I also have an image of an Iraqi woman being pack raped in Iraq by US soldiers. GWB does not give a fuck.
It seems that you do not know how the World works yet.
I agree that preemptive strikes against genuine terrorists is a good thing. But Iraq was not a genuine target. It will be in the future though, now that this has blown up so severely. This will never end well for the US.
If you want to do something to help our world why not try to help end terrorism instead of just crying about those who try to.
This is a truely ridiculous statement. Given that the US is merely fueling more terrorism by its current actions. Iraq had little to do with terrorism and seemingly nothing to do with 9/11. Disagree with that? Then prove it wrong. The US Govt cannot find a shred of evidence to support their actions and now officials are back peddling out of previous statements because they know this is a lost arguement.
"I've got numerous individuals on the road, do you want me to take them out?", "Take 'em out!", "IMPACT!", "Oh dude".
WAKE THE FUCK UP. DID THAT LOOK LIKE A LEGITIMATE TARGET TO YOU? WAS THAT "TARGET" EFFECTIVELY IDENTIFIED AS BEING LEGITIMATE, SO AS TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT IRAQI PEOPLE? NO, IT FUCKING WASN'T. Real combatants normally work in smaller groups in any given area, RUN between areas of no cover and generally LOOK like combatants in their movements. These were just a crowd of people casually walking in the street. Even if they were out to kill US and allied forces, where was the positive identification of this prior to the act of killing? This is the same old thing that ALL non-Americans always say. Americans shoot first and ask questions later.
The damage took the head off in a similar fashion, but I was shooting from behind rather than the thing charging me.
Was the removed head recognisable as coyote?